Saint Socrates, pray for us. — M. D. Aeschliman (Ph.D., Columbia) is professor emeritus of education at Boston University and professor of Anglophone culture at the University of Italian ...

It was not until dawn the next morning that Socrates said a prayer to the new day and walked away. Alcibades being taught by Socrates – François-André Vincent (1776). Public domain.

“SAINT SOCRATES, PRAY for us,” Erasmus remarked in one of his Colloquia. For thousands of years, since his trial and death in 399 BCE, we have seen Socrates as a martyr to truth: doing what ...

“When [Socrates] spoke of the gods he spoke of them in respectful hallowed tones, expecting them to be moral exemplars,” says LaBarge. Plato also describes Socrates as “casting doubt” on the idea of ...